Press Coverage: S Peggie v Fife Health Board & Dr B Upton
Press coverage post first part of the hearing and related
All information, live tweeting sessions and press coverage prior to 17th February 2025 can be found here on our S Peggie v Fife Health Board & Dr B Upton case page
Here are links to relevant press coverage from 17th February 2025 about this case. These links are included without comment and are not endorsed by Tribunal Tweets. This is a sample of coverage only - it is not comprehensive. Please DM our main Twitter account to submit coverage from an established news outlet. Any paywalled article must be archived.
20th Feb 2025
Telegraph - Wes Streeting condemns wiping of trans doctors’ records
Telegraph - The SNP can’t have it both ways. Some things are binary, actually
Dumfermline Press - Sandie Peggie Tribunal: Legal advice needed on NHS transgender policy
Courier - John Swinney quizzed on Sandie Peggie case as he defends trans changing room guidance
Scotsman - FMQs RECAP: John Swinney questioned on Sandie Peggie trans changing room row
Nursing Times - NHS Fife changing room tribunal: what we know so far
Herald - Why won't John Swinney address Sandie Peggie drama?
Scottish daily express - SNP rules allow men who self-identify as women access to female-only toilets and changing rooms despite it being illegal
[AUDIO] LBC - Shelagh Fogarty and Gina Davidson discuss Sandie Peggie's employment tribunal
[VIDEO] Holyrood PMQs - Rachel Hailton and Ash Regan
[VIDEO] Holyrood PMQs - John Swinney
Eastern Daily Press - Swinney urged to ditch SNP’s ‘gender ideology’ as Tories warn it is causing harm
Telegraph - Doctors who change gender are allowed to scrub past wrongdoing from public record
Herald - Kate Forbes backs single-sex spaces in Sandie Peggie row
Holyrood - Peggie v NHS Fife: More casualties to come
Times - Trans NHS staff must be allowed to use ‘preferred facilities’
19th Feb 2025
Scottish Daily Express - What's the point of Holyrood? Fury as 'cowardly' SNP block attempts to quiz Scottish Government on Sandie Peggie case
Telegraph - Men who self-ID as women can use female-only lavatories under SNP rules
Inverness Courier - Ministers urged to seek legal advice on draft NHS transgender policy
Spectator - Women won’t easily forget Scottish Labour’s gender turnaround
Telegraph - SNP health secretary refuses to back nurse facing sack for ‘misgendering’ trans doctor
STV - I do not regret supporting gender reforms, says Swinney
Herald - Gray has full confidence in NHS Fife amid Sandie Peggie row
18th Feb 2025
Spectator - Scottish Labour U-turns on trans stance
Daily Mail - Is Neil Gray a man of substance? If he stays quiet over single-sex changing rooms voters will form their own view
Courier - SNP block NHS Fife tribunal being discussed in Holyrood over ‘danger’ it could jeopardise case [Letter referred to from women's organisations here]
Holyrood Sources - Scottish Labour leader and deputy support Sandie Peggie and regret supporting GRR Bill
Scottish daily express - What's the point in Holyrood? Fury as 'cowardly' SNP block attempts to quiz Scottish Government on Sandie Peggie case
Holyrood: Tess White MSP on issues surrounding Sandie Paggie case
Holyrood: Murdo Fraser MSP calls Scot Gov censorship on single sex provision 'cowardice'
Holyrood: Douglas Ross Conservative MSP accuses Scottish Gov of blocking questions surrounding Sandie Peggie
Scottish Daily Express - Sandie Peggie case WON'T be discussed at Holyrood as attempts to get answers snubbed by secretive Scottish Parliament
Scottish Sun - NHS trans row was an avoidable mess – axing nurse will be shameful
Scottish Sun - NHS trans row was an avoidable mess – axing nurse will be shameful
17th February 2025
[AUDIO] BBC Radio Scotland - ‘Misconduct’ hearing rescheduled
Spiked - The NHS’s cruel witch-hunt of a gender-critical nurse
Scottish Daily Express - John Swinney under pressure to break silence on Sandie Peggie case as he is accused of 'hiding' behind loophole
(Related) Scottish Daily Express - Scots councillor faces disciplinary hearing for calling non-binary child abuse boy
The Times - Trans row nurse Sandie Peggie faces separate disciplinary hearing
Daily Mail - Trans doctor changing room controversy 'exposes the recklessness of Nicola Sturgeon's self-ID policies'
The Telegraph - Why would any woman work for the NHS after this nurse’s experience?
STV - SNP ministers told to ‘clear up mess’ on single sex spaces by UK Government
[VIDEO] BBC Reporting Scotland - Nurse Peggie faces misconduct hearing
The Telegraph - NHS allowed transgender doctor to use female facilities on advice of equalities officer
The Scotsman - New single-sex space guidance needed to clear up 'sheer mess' left by SNP ministers, after Beth Upton case
The Courier - Nurse suing NHS Fife over trans changing room row faces sack this week
Scottish Sun - Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar backs NHS nurse over women-only spaces amid Fife trans doctor row
Personnel Today - Nurse at centre of trans tribunal faces conduct hearing
The Scotsman - Employers have handled trans disputes ‘really badly’, says union boss, as Dr Beth Upton case row continues
Scottish Daily Express - Sandie Peggie faces sack by NHS Fife for 'misgendering' trans Dr Beth Upton